Marc Chagall Quotes

One doesn't remain a teenager forever.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

I used to be a child. It came naturally to me. I was an adult for a time, too. That came less naturally.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

When you are 20 years old, you are immature.

I find myself drawn to that period where children are about to leave childhood behind. When you're 12 years old, you still have one foot in childhood; the other is poised to enter a completely new stage of life.

Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes.

A boy has two jobs. One is just being a boy. The other is growing up to be a man.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

I'm 26 years old. I don't need to be playing 16 anymore.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

Whether it's 1970, 1990, or 2010, kids will be going through the same experiences.

I think all kids are rebellious. It's a part of growing up.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to early twenties, a stretch of life that needed a name, from school leaver to salaried professional, with a university and affairs and death and choices in between. I had forgotten how recent my childhood was, how long and inescapable it once seemed. How grown up and how unchanged I was.

I hate that everyone calls it growing up, but it seems like DYING.

They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.

We all, one day, realize that we’re not going to be kids forever and we’re going to grow up.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.